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Basilia Bough Vs. Matilde Cantiveros 040 Phil 209

BASILIA BOUGH and GUSTAVUS BOUGH, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. MATILDE CANTIVEROS and PRESBITERA HANOPOL, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 13300 | 1919-09-29

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

This action was begun in the Court of First Instance of Leyte, pursuant to a complaint by means of which the plaintiffs Basilia Bough and Gustavus Bough sought to have themselves put in possession of the property covered by the deed of sale quoted in the complaint, and to require the defendant Matilde Cantiveros to pay the plaintiffs the sum of five hundred pesos by way of damages, and to pay the costs. Matilde Cantiveros answered with a general denial and a special defense, not sworn to, in which she asked that judgment be rendered declaring the contract of sale theretofore made between herself and Basilia...